the current state of technology integration in social studies teacher
education (e.g., Berson, Mason, Heinecke, & Coutts, 2001). Some
subject matter faculty have begun to integrate technology into
their teaching and there are some studies of this integration (e.g.,
Milman & Heinecke, 2000; Easley & Hoffman, 2001).
Despite this strong start, few social studies teacher educators
have shared studies of how they actually incorporated technology
into their social studies education curriculum and teaching to facilitate
their students’ learning to use technology in their social
studies teaching. This article reports on one social studies faculty
member’s integration attempt as a means to increase the dialogue
on how social studies faculty can use technology in their teaching.
This article describes how technology was incorporated into
everyday classroom instruction and how this influenced the students’
teaching. Lessons were designed to model the use of technology
and to engage prospective social studies students in ways
that increase their desire to use technology in meaningful ways in
their classroom teaching. The first portion of the article describes
the technology integration and the second portion explains what
was learned about the impact of this integration.